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.
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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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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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