Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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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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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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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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