It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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