Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINI don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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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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