Violence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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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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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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