You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
ANAIS NINDreams are necessary to life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I 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.
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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 joy is the mastery of pain.
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