It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINThe only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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