Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I, 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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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