You live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINLife is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
ANAIS NINLove 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 NINI adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINThrow 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.
ANAIS NINHow wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINFor you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
ANAIS NINOne handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
ANAIS NINThe 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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