Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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