I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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