We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NINI 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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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.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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