Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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