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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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ANAïS NIN No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides chil...
ANAïS NIN The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whol...
ANAïS NIN His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could s...
ANAïS NIN And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the...
ANAïS NIN The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are...
ANAïS NIN Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins...
ANAïS NIN So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, clutterin...
ANAïS NIN In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this inst...
ANAïS NIN When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as ...
ANAïS NIN You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.
ANAïS NIN Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untrac...
ANAïS NIN When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive
ANAïS NIN I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on...
ANAïS NIN At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all ...
ANAïS NIN Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and ligh...
ANAïS NIN The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at t...
ANAïS NIN Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain p...
ANAïS NIN They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding ...
ANAïS NIN Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, sad...
ANAïS NIN I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understan...
ANAïS NIN I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smil...
ANAïS NIN At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing ...
ANAïS NIN If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happines...
ANAïS NIN You cannot save people. You can only love them.
ANAïS NIN I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of ...
ANAïS NIN The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like anothe...
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