Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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The 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.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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