I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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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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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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