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.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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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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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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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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