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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.