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.
ANAIS NINCreate a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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