If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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