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.
ANAIS NINI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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