And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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