In chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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