And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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