You live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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