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.
ANAIS NINThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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