I love your silences, they are like mine.
ANAIS NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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