I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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