What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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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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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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 walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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