We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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