Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
ANAIS NINThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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