Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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