For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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