There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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