Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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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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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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