The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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