The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINI want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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 am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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 value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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