Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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