We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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