We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINI adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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 travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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