There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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 life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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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 possess light within, you see it externally.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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