What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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