Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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 have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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