I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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