One handles truths like dynamite.
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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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