Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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