Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINPassion gives me moments of wholeness.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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