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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
