You live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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