We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINDreams are necessary to life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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