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Spirituality Quotes by Anais Nin

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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer…

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The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or…

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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

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I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part…

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“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to…

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I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

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“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For love there are a million variations, a million nights, a million days, contrasts in moods, in textures, whims, a million gestures colored by emotion, by sorrow, joy, fear, courage, triumph, by revelations which deepen the groove,…

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We…

I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less…

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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

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Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and…

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In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not…

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I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

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“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between…

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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

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