Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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