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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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