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.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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 fall in love with people’s minds.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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