We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINWe don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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