I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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