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.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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