The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
ANAIS NINOne handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINLove 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 NINYour eyes make me shy.
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 NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
ANAIS NINYou cannot save people, you can only love them.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NINYou don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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