Violence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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