One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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