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.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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