Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINThere 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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 hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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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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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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