Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINYou cannot save people, you can only love them.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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