I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
ANAIS NINIt is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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