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 NINIn chaos, there is fertility.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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You 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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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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