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 NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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