It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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