Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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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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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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