Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINEach 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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