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.
ANAIS NINOne handles truths like dynamite.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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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.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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