We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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 believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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