If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
ANAIS NINIf 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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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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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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