The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Anxiety 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.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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