We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Your eyes make me shy.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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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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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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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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 secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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