It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
ANAIS NINWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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