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.
ANAIS NINLove men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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