Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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