Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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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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