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.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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