And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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 take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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