We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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The 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.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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