When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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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 don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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She 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.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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