The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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 men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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