We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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What 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.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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