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.
ANAIS NINYou can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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