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.
ANAIS NINI, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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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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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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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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