We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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 enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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