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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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