We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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