One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINEach friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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