People living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAIS NINLife is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I 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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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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 don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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