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.
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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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