We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NINDreams are necessary to life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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