I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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