When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
ANAIS NINReality 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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