Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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