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"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."

"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."

"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."

"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."

"As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then."

"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
Explore more quotes by Anais Nin

"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."

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
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