And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINWe don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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