And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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