I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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 have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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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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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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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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 am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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