We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
ANAIS NINYou cannot save people, you can only love them.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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