The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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More Anais Nin Quotes
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Reality 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.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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