If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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