One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINI want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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