It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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