Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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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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