Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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