Good things happen to those who hustle.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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