I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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