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.
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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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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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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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