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.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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