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.
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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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