It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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