Your eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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 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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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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.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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 secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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