We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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