The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINWe 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.
ANAIS NINI am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINDo not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINAnxiety 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.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
ANAIS NINThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
ANAIS NINYou cannot save people, you can only love them.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
ANAIS NINI will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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