Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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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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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