Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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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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