For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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 are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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