Your eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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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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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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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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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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