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.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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