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.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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