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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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.
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.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
