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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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 don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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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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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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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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 value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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