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 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.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
ANAIS NINThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINI reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINDreams are necessary to life.
ANAIS NINI, 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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