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.
ANAIS NINThrow 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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