Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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 don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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