We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NINCreate a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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 postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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