One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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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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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