When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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