Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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