I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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