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In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.


Anaïs Nin

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ANAïS NIN I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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ANAïS NIN You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.
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ANAïS NIN I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ...
ANAïS NIN The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
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ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others empha...
ANAïS NIN I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lo...
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ANAïS NIN I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.
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ANAïS NIN Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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ANAïS NIN At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.
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ANAïS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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