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.
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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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 reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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