We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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