Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINWe 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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