I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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.
ANAIS NINI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
ANAIS NINThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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 NINThrow your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
ANAIS NINDreams are necessary to life.
ANAIS NINI reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINYou 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.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINMy mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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 NINThe secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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