Anais Nin Quotes About Passion
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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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, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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