We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINThrow 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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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 reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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 adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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