We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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