We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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 fall in love with people’s minds.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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