No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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