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 NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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