Anais Nin Quotes
Anais Nin Quote of the day
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...
When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive
And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.
He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.
What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?
Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet.
Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.
No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts.
Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action.
The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.
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?
And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...
So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.
In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.
You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.
When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.
