Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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