We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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