We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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