The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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