It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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 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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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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