There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINThe 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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