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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
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.
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.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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.
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.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 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.
