Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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