We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINMy 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Your eyes make me shy.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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