The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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