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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
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.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
