Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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