Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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 postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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