The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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