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 NINI want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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