I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective 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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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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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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