Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINFor 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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