Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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