It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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