The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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