The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
ANAIS NINThe secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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