The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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You 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.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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