And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINEach friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
ANAIS NINFor 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.
ANAIS NINI want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
ANAIS NINI 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.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINThe 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.
ANAIS NINWillingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
ANAIS NINIf I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINAnxiety 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.
ANAIS NINThe 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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