Violence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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 take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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