I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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