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 write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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 reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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