I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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