Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
ANAIS NINThere are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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We 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.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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