Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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