I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINWe don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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