No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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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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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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