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.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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