We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAIS NINI don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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