You cannot save people, you can only love them.
ANAIS NINOne handles truths like dynamite.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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