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.
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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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