I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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