We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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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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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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