I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINDreams are necessary to life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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.
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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 am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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