I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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