I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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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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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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