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.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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