Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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