No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINThere 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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You 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.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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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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