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.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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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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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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