Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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 dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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