I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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