Anaïs Nin IPA:
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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Anais Nin
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
“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.”
“What I cannot love, I overlook”
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
“When one is pretending the entire body revolts”