I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINYou cannot save people, you can only love them.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Reality 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.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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