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.
ANAIS NINThe only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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