I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINLife is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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 adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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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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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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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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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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