Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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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 don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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