The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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