If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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You 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.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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