When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINI 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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