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.
ANAIS NINIf I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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 can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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