I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
ANAIS NINI 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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