Each 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 NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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