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.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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