The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers 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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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