One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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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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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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Life 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.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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