Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
ANAIS NINI take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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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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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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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 am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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