You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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