Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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