I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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 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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