Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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 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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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 write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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