The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINI adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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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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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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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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