No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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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 don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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