We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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