I love your silences, they are like mine.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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 love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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