The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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