I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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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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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 can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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