We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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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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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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