I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
ANAIS NINI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
ANAIS NINI am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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 NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINPassion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINLife 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.
ANAIS NINIn chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINWe don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINIt is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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