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 NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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