Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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