Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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I 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.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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