Dreams are necessary to life.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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