It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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 travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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