Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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Love 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.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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