When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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