We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINIt is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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