I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINI take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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