Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
ANAIS NINIf 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Each 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.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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