Violence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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