I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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Throw 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.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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