The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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 love your silences, they are like mine.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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