Dreams are necessary to life.
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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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