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When one is pretending the entire body revolts. - Anaïs Nin

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. – Anaïs Nin

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Life
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Anaïs Nin
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing
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Anaïs Nin
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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Confidence
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We are betrayed by what is false within. – George Meredith

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A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. – Eric Hoffer

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