It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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