And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINI love your silences, they are like mine.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love 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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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