I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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