When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
ANAIS NINYou don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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.
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