Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
ANAIS NINYou cannot save people, you can only love them.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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 adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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