You fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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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 never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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