And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINWe don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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