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.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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