Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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, 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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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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