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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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.
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.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
