We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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