Anais Nin Quotes

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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Anxiety Drown Kill Love Man Panic Save Want
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Death Deep Fear Inspirational Life People Travel
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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Betrayal Blind Death Error Ill Love Natural Wound
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Clouds Destroy Inspirational Sky
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Alone Come Creation Inspirational Love Stand World
Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Hurt One Liner Stop Writing
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Accurate Crises Emotional Human Movement Writing
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Breathe Inspirational Life Secret Want
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Alignment Failure Human Nature Soul Suffering
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Extreme Inspirational Light Possession
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Choice Inspirational Trap
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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Catch Dreams Inspirational Live Miracle Moments Positive Run
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Inspirational Let Go Marvelous Transformation
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Break Up Broken Heart Call Hairs I Hate You Restless Stars
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Couple Fantasy I Love You Madness Share
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Adore Carry Sincerity Struggle Terrifying Yourself
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Body Music Separate Togetherness

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