We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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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 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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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