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.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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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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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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