Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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