The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

Anais Nin

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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.

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. by Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

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You cannot save people. You can only love them. by Anais Nin

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. by Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

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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.

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The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

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We are never trapped unless we choose to be. by Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. by Anais Nin

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled... by Anais Nin

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another. by Anais Nin

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great... by Anais Nin

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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