You live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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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 don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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