I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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