My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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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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