No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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