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.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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