You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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 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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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