Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINYou 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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