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.
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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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