We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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