The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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