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.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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