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.
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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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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