You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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