I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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