I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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