The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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.
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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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