Top 100 Anais Nin Love Quotes
#1. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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#2. We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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#3. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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#4. Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
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#5. I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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#6. The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.
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#9. But what a superb game the three of us are playing. Who is the demon? Who is the liar? Who the human being? Who the cleverest? Who the strongest? Who loves the most? Are we three immense egos fighting for domination or for love, or are these things mixed?
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#10. What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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#11. I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
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#12. Such obsession with reaching the moon, because they had failed to reach each other, each a solitary planet! In silence, in mystery, a human being was formed, was exploded, was struck by other passing bodies, was burned, was deserted. And then it was born in the molten love of the one who cared.
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#13. I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
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#14. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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#15. I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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#16. This openness, which is closed again as soon as we face a partial relationship, the one who understands only one part of us, is the miraculous openess which takes place in whole love.
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#17. One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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#18. You fall in love with people's minds.
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#19. She fell in love with an extinct volcano.
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#20. Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances.
Love the great narcotic was the agent provocateur exposing all the secret selves to daylight.
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#21. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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#22. We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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#23. Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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#24. Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
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#25. Although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
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#26. Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: "I don't understand
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#27. We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness
sensuality in which the whole being can participate.
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#28. Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
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#29. Was it not an act of love to impersonate the loved one?
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#30. I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not intellectual. I do not understand abstract act. Only art born of love, passion, pain.
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#31. The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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#32. I cannot live without love. Love is at the root of my being.
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#33. Our love lives because I live.
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#34. It is hard for me to believe in continuous, sustained happiness, just as it is hard for me to believe in love.
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#35. A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
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#36. I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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#37. What I cannot love, I overlook.
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#38. Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.
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#39. As soon as I kiss him I know that I love him with a blind instinct beyond all reason, with all his defects.
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#40. The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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#41. He had never seen her body so abandoned, so unconscious of all but the desire to be taken and satisfied. She bloomed under his caresses, no longer the girl but the woman already being born.
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#42. Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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#43. Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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#44. I love you, June, and you know how acutely, how desperately. You know that no one can say or do anything to shake my love. I have taken you into myself, whole. You need have no fear of being unmasked, only loved.
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#45. 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?
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#46. I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.
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#47. In my childhood diary I wrote: I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
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#48. If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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#50. Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
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#51. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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#52. Anxiety is loves greatest killer.
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#53. Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments.
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#54. I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
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#55. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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#56. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
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#57. Does she know I feel immobile and fixed, lost in her?
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#58. The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
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#59. The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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#60. I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.
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#61. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.
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#62. Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
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#63. It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
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#64. To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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#65. I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.
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#66. I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
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#67. When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?
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#68. A long time ago," said Michael, "I decided never to fall in love again. I have made of desire an anonymous activity." "But not to feel ... not to love ... is like dying within life, Michael.
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#69. I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I think it is death- everything but passion seems like death to me. Only in fever do I feel life.
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#70. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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#71. 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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#72. Why does a gesture, a walk, stir your blood? What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
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#73. For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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#74. It was this that frightened me
the sense that behind the grande amoureuse lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.
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#75. Now the evening is beginning and I will discover a human being to court or to be courted by, an adventure with caprice and desire, and while gambling I might find love.
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#76. You can't save people, you can only love them.
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#77. You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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#80. I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
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#81. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
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#82. Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when you love as a game, you lose everything, as he lost his home and wife, and now he clings to me, afraid of loss, afraid of solitude.
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#83. You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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#84. 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.
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#85. I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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#86. She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I don't want to know, I only want to love her.
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#87. Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
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#88. I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.
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#89. Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can stir me as much as a note from him.
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#90. You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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#91. 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.
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#92. Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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#93. Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life ...
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#94. They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love.
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#95. There are things one reads that make you aware that you have lived nothing, felt nothing, experienced nothing up to that time. How can i begin to feel - to feel? I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me.
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#96. Nothing seems true today except the death of the goldfish who used to make love at ninety kilometers an hour in the pool. The maid has given him a Christian burial. To the worms! To the worms!
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#97. They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain as point of comparison to torment them later on when all natural imperfections would disintegrate it.
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#98. I said, If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony and narcissism in place of conflict.
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#99. A couple was leaning over the railing, and Lillian could hear the woman say: Even if you don't mean it, just for tonight, say you love me. I won't ever remind you of it; I will not see you again, but just for tonight say you love me, say you love me.
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#100. 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.
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