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.
ANAIS NINWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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