Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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