I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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