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.
ANAIS NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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