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 NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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