And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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