Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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 postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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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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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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