Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
ANAIS NINLife is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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