Your eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Reality 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.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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