One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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