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.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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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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