You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
ANAIS NINThe secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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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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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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