Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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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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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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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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