No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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