I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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