It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINWhat everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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 I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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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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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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 can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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