I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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