How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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 secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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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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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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