We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINOne handles truths like dynamite.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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