It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINI walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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