I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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