And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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