One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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