I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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, 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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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