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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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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