Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
ANAIS NINMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
ANAIS NINPassion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NINWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINIf 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.
ANAIS NINYou fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINMy 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.
ANAIS NINI, 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.
ANAIS NINThere are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
ANAIS NINI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINLife is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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