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.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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