I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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