Anais Nin Quotes

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Cruel Judgement Play Refuse Relationship Role
Your eyes make me shy.
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Couple Eyes Flirting One Liner Shy Valentine Wife
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Mask Ourselves Reveal
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Believe Change Deep Influence Inspirational Life Ourselves Revolution
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Adopt Blind Cease Growth Politics Religion
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Combination Death Failure Kindness Life People Process
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Courage Expand Inspirational Life Proportion Shrink
I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Couple Romantic Sex Valentine Want Wild
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Contact Human Precious Preserve Rare Relationship
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Abstract Delicate Live Love Sensation Vague
Dreams are necessary to life.
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Dreams Inspirational Life Necessary One Liner
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Acceptance Experience Imperfection Inspirational Life One Liner Teaching
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Ecstasy Escape Freedom Impress Intoxication Reality Wall
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Emphasize Ideas Loneliness People Reality Satisfaction
Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Entrepreneur Happen Hustle Motivational Work Hard
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Demand Instinct Strength Woman Women Empowerment
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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One Liner Sympton Violence
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Experiment Life Marriage Mistake Right
I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Afraid Hate Men Strength Women Women Empowerment
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Dominate Joy Lose Love Mind Moments
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth
I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Art Non Violence One Liner Passion Power
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Book Deep Role Wriitng
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Clear Confusion Deep Life One Liner Reality
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Children Depth Explore Life Magic Power Truth Wonder

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