I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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