I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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