I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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The 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.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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