The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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 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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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