Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINThe secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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 take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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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.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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