Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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