Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINYou cannot save people, you can only love them.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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