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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
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.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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 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.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.