I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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