I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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 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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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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