The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINLife 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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