Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINLove men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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