In the words of Anaïs Nin:
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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 personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Tranquility is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
Life, religion, and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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.
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
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