We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAIS NINIt is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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