Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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