We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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More Anais Nin Quotes
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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 am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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 reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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