We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINI’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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