When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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 fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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