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.
ANAIS NINI don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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