Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINYou can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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