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.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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