Violence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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 NINWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
ANAIS NINThe real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
ANAIS NINAnxiety 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 NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAIS NINThe secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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 NINYou fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINReality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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