Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
ANAIS NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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 NINThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINLove 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.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINI want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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