Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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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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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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