We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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