You cannot save people, you can only love them.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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