Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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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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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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