Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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