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.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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