Dreams are necessary to life.
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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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