Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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