There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINYou don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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