Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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