We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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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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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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