We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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More Anais Nin Quotes
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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