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.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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