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.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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