Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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More Anais Nin Quotes
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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