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.
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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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