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 NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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