Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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