We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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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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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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 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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