I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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