The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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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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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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