Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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 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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