Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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