It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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