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 NINWe are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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