I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
ANAIS NINYou fall in love with people’s minds.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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 secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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