I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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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 have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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