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His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?


Anaïs Nin

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ANAïS NIN People living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAïS NIN From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to...
ANAïS NIN Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is t...
ANAïS NIN The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAïS NIN She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
ANAïS NIN For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to ...
ANAïS NIN The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
ANAïS NIN When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h...
ANAïS NIN You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence...
ANAïS NIN Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m...
ANAïS NIN A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o...
ANAïS NIN I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo...
ANAïS NIN You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever...
ANAïS NIN In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
ANAïS NIN We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are
ANAïS NIN Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are...
ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp...
ANAïS NIN I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
ANAïS NIN Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAïS NIN [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...
ANAïS NIN Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAïS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAïS NIN I write emotional algebra.
ANAïS NIN She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ...
ANAïS NIN The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAIS NIN The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ...
ANAIS NIN How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
ANAIS NIN Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o...
ANAIS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NIN I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NIN There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NIN What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
ANAIS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
ANAIS NIN The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NIN Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d...
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