I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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 take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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