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 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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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