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.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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 reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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 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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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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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