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Anais Nin Quotes - Page 2

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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.

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.

Life, Wall, Freedom

"The Resurgence And Allure Of Anais Nin" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

Love, Mean, Different

Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Freedom, Reality, Imagination

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Inspirational, Anger, Sister In Law

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Ordinary World, Ecstasy, Tempo

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

Alchemist, Magic, Gold

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses

Love You, Mean, Madness

Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

Pain, Masters

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Inspirational Music, Together, Body

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

Children, Real, Lying

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

Dream, Poet, Walks

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Joy, Mind, Way

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

Art, Philosophy, Self

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

Real, Adventure, Self

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

Secret, Breathe, Wanted

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Trapped

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

Passion, Sensual, Fusion

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

Beauty, Light, Within You

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Love, Running, Dream

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Truth, Reality, Political

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

Inspirational, Stars, Fate

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Thinking, Being Sad, Humanity

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Prejudice, Protection, Weak

I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

Romantic Love, Valentine's Day, Want

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