Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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 NINWe don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINPassion gives me moments of wholeness.
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.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINHow wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINI am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
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