And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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