Dreams are necessary to life.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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 must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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