Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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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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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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