When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINWe are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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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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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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