I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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