There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais NinTo the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.
Anais NinWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soulโyou create suffering.
Anais NinI want to love you wildly. I donโt want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
Anais NinCreate a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
Anais NinI find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.
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