The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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