Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
ANAIS NINGood things happen to those who hustle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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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.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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