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.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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