The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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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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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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