Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like 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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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