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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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.
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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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.
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.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
