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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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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 are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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