I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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