One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINReality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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