Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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