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.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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