The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I, 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.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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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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