The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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