Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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