When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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