We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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