Anais Nin Quotes

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Adversity Defeat Endure Inspirational Life Lose Stumble Suffering
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Beginning Business Dreams Influence Inspirational Reality
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Deep Fairy Tale Love One Liner Poison
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Explanation Love Reason Seek Solution
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Depression Healing Let Go Master Pain
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Consistent Look Pleasure Quiet Transformation Women
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
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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Artist Freedom Monk Possession Powerful Rich World
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Experience Moments Passion Passionate Personality
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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Destiny Fate Finding Love Stars Writing
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Country Dreams Friendship Kite Life Love Space
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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Creation Intimacy Love Personal Relationship Understand Value
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Build Creation Expectation Herself Man Want World Wrong
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Fall In Love Mind One Liner People
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Allow Creature Enough Occurance Wings
Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Explore Prejudice Protection Strength Weakness Willing
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Death Error Giving Healing Lose Move On Postpone Risk Suffering
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Inspirational Nature Ourselves
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Couple Love Myself Silence

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