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.
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Anais Nin Do not seek the because -in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin It is not madness. It is an effort to transcend the rigidities and the patterns made by the rational mind.
Anais Nin i go in to come out.
Anais Nin We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
Anais Nin Love is the axis and breath of my life.
Anais Nin The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Anais Nin I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. [...] I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucke...d, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.
Anais Nin Why are we so full of restraint? ~Henry Miller
Anais Nin In chaos, there is fertility.
Anais Nin The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais on March 2, 1932 ...we will only write and talk to swell the sails. (p.16)
Anais Nin Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on. [...] I never feel the brakes. I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine, then it makes me dizzy.
Anais Nin What moves you?
Anais Nin There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
