Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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 am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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 postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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