It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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For 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.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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