Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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