No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINYou can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
ANAIS NINThe real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
ANAIS NINThrow your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINEach friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
ANAIS NINI 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.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINWe don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINThere 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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