We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAIS NINEach 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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