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.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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