We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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