You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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