Each 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 NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I 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.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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