Love 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 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.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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