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Dream Quotes by Anais Nin
- I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no…
- I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
- The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,…
- The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million…
- Dreams are essential to life.
- The dream has to be translated into reality.
- We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
- This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to…
- 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…
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Dreams are necessary to life.
- The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
- In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place…
- I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world,…
- I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
- I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the…
- You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams...
- The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
- Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
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