Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Life 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.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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