Anais-nin Quotes

They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding ...

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it...

Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be...

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

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connec...

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smil...

In chaos, there is fertility.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by ste...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much s...

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political cri...

I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to...

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on...

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who nev...

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of ...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an ...

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing ...

Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everythin...

Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values....

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloo...

He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.

He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wi...

Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untrac...

When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as ...

Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain p...

No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a carele...

Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.

The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whol...

The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are...

When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive

Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins...

Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, sad...

His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could s...

No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides chil...

I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender...

And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the...

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, clutterin...

I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other real...

The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at t...

In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this inst...

Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wa...

You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and ligh...

No privacy left. No manners.

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