You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are fuel that ignites it. Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood.


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ANAïS NIN
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then do...
ANAïS NIN
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
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My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.
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She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don’t have a language fo...
ANAïS NIN
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAïS NIN
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAïS NIN
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the botto...
ANAïS NIN
When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. Ther...
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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...
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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.
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h...
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence...
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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...
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo...
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You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever...
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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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We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are...
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp...
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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