What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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