I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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 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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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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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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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