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.
ANAIS NINReality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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 don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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 love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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