I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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