Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINWe are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINEach friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINThere 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.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINReality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
ANAIS NINWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINYou fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINIn chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NINDo not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINI walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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