In chaos, there is fertility.
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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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My 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.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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