What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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