I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve 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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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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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