Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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