The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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