Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
ANAIS NINIf I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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