Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
ANAIS NINCreate a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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 NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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 NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINIf 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.
ANAIS NINPassion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NINIn chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NINGood things happen to those who hustle.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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