Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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