We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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 secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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 take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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