The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINWillingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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