The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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