I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINThe only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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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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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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