Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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