When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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 travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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