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.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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