Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
ANAIS NINWe are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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