I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINIf I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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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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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 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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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