Anais Nin Quotes

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Change Different Love People Prince Reserve Right
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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Hunger Love Marriage Men Need Strength Women
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Choice Happiness Inspirational Negative Power
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Break Up Broken Heart Creation Die Pain People World
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Breathe Cry Culture Sing Writing
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Feeling Language Music Sensation Sense Sound
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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Enemy Lack Love Man Ourselves Outside Woman
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Circle Infinite Life Motion
In chaos, there is fertility.
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Choas Inspirational One Liner
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Freedom Imagination Reality Transcend Try
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Love People Save
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Beautiful Goodness Luxury Minimalism Necessary
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Acceptance Love
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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Awareness Forget Life Passion Produce Sensual
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Depth Fear Live Mermaid Snorkeling
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Attitude Character Goodness Inspirational
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Be Yourself Believe Inspirational Tolerance World
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Death Destroy Life Live
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
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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Admire Confidence Dare Herself Lack Reflection She Woman
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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Arrive Born Friendship Meet Represent World
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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Happiness Ill Joy Peace Serenity
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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Book Careless Dreams Madness Movement Night Peace Seek
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Giving Inspirational Moments One Liner Passion
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Age Death Gold Life Love Magic Transformation

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