It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINWe are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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