Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINWe 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.
ANAIS NINWhat 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.
ANAIS NINIf 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.
ANAIS NINIn chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NINI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINWe don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NINLove men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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