The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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 don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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