I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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