The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINOne handles truths like dynamite.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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