Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINI’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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