The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
ANAIS NINShe 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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