
I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
– Anas Nin
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- The relief of opening one’s hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire for revenge, a strange revenge. – Anas Nin
- You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength. – Anas Nin
- In this instant of danger they realized they were each other’s reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being. – Anas Nin
- His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt? – Anas Nin
- The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one’s whole existence. – Anas Nin
- Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action. – Anas Nin
- But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom… – Anas Nin
- Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel. – Anas Nin
- No privacy left. No manners. – Anas Nin
- What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you? – Anas Nin
- He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals. – Anas Nin
- And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anas Nin
- Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. – Anas Nin
- How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? – Anas Nin
- I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. – Anas Nin
- One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain. – Anas Nin
- He was jealous of her future, and she of his past. – Anas Nin
- They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love. – Anas Nin
- I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength. – Anas Nin
- We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art–we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. – Anas Nin
- The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. – Anas Nin
- I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them. – Anas Nin
- Her hair was full of lights – Anas Nin
- …then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. – Anas Nin
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. – Anas Nin
- We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. – Anas Nin
- We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. – Anas Nin
- We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. – Anas Nin
- We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. – Anas Nin
- I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. – Anas Nin
- We see the world not as it is, but as we are. – Anas Nin
- I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all. – Anas Nin
- I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled. – Anas Nin
- Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. – Anas Nin
- Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. – Anas Nin
- Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman. – Anas Nin
- Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them. – Anas Nin
- We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks. – Anas Nin