Anais Nin quote: "I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them."

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ...
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o...
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d...
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce t...
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of ...
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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we ar...
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies ...
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The wr...
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a ...
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The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice...
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies...
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; ...
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then do...
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and...
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We don't see things as they are.
We see them as we are.
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Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises...
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ev...
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird ...
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And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk...
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I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or...
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Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of musi...
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdepend...
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by...
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Jazz is the music of the body
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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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 bl...
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cea...
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illuminat...
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird ...
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, w...
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot ...
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is t...
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defe...
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this mee...
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a...
ANAIS NIN

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connec...
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happines...
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, ...
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an ...
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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.
ANAIS NIN

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to...
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire,...
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the free...
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.
ANAIS NIN

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was dr...
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird ...
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The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it...
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, ...
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my fe...
ANAIS NIN

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honouring of differences, not simply in the enjoyme...
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anais Nin
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If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever ...
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And the day came for the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk ...
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much s...
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my fe...
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have mad...
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When one is pretending the entire body revolts
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Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, ...
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the free...
ANAIS NIN

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept bec...
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more myst...
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete en...
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection
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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ...
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internal...
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by ...
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What I cannot love, I overlook
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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits.....
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and...
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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to...
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And the day came when the risk to remain in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom.
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We see not what is, but what we are.
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The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chan...
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only redu...
ANAIS NIN

This is a one-off boom. From here on, there will be a bigger diversification of investments.
ANAIS FARAJ

Market nerves are ragged. Its like Chinese water torture. We thought we'd have resolution from Blix,...
ANAIS FARAJ

It's hard to be enthusiastic about the consumer goods sector in Europe, which is being squeezed by g...
ANAIS FARAJ

After the war there is going to be a sharp reckoning, and I suspect markets will have to correct to ...
ANAIS FARAJ

Economic data is currently pointing to a double-dip recession. ... Investors are feeling bullet-proo...
ANAIS FARAJ

All I am hearing is that they are getting cooperation from Iraq,
ANAIS FARAJ

But if this is the victory rally it is going to be short-lived unless we get that perfect war that f...
ANAIS FARAJ

Perhaps this is the war rally everyone has been hoping for.
ANAIS FARAJ

The market is taking it as sign that war will be delayed. But I'd rather wait for the Powell rebutta...
ANAIS FARAJ

I think both in the U.S. and in Europe we are going to have a good first half until the trend in ear...
ANAIS FARAJ

Emma stared at the ceiling of the hotel room. Her thoughts went over every memorial, each picture, t...
ANAIS TORRES

She didn’t want to keep talking about him as if everything was okay. Worst of all, she hated sorti...
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He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who sh...
ANAIS TORRES

Her mother told her once that her father was sick. That the sickness made him do it. She made it see...
ANAIS TORRES

She doesn't seem deranged to me?
ANAIS TORRES

Do you know that most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most wo...
ANAIS TORRES

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do sto...
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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strengt...
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much s...
ANAïS NIN

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by...
ANAïS NIN

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more myst...
ANAïS NIN

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shack...
ANAïS NIN

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a...
ANAïS NIN

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAïS NIN

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAïS NIN

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though wh...
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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha...
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave th...
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAïS NIN

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies ...
ANAïS NIN

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; ...
ANAïS NIN

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to bl...
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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, w...
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is dest...
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How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
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Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up...
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She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of hersel...
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I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, anothe...
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes a...
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo o...
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And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling...
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I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness...
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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I...
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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman...
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierar...
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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five y...
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But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest u...
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The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will ...
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ...
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the...
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punis...
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I...
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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a ...
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from ...
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my fe...
ANAïS NIN

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

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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

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