Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NINWillingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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