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.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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