We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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