We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINWillingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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