I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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 NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINShe lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINI’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINI reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINI love your silences, they are like mine.
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 NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINThe only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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