Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
ANAIS NINLove 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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