I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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