Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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