When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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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.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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