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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More Anais Nin Quotes
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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