Anaïs Nin - Love Quotes

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Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. I swim in the sky; I float; my body is full of flowers, flowers with fingers giving me acute, acute caresses, sparks, jewels, quivers of joy, dizziness, such dizziness. Music inside of one, drunkenness. Only closing the eyes and remembering, and the hunger, the hunger for more, more, the great hunger, the voracious hunger, and thirst.

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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.

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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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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 illnesses and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never a natural death. Every lover should be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love.

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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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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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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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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

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Our love of each other is like one long shadow kissing without hope of reality.

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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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Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!

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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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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

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No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness.

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You are like a person who consumes herself in love and giving and does not know the miracles that are born of this.

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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

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If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves.

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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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Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.

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Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."

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Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

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I think that natural truths will cease to be spat at us like insults, that aesthetics will once more be linked with ethics, and that people will become aware that in casting out aesthetics that they also cast out a respect for human life, a respect for creation, a respect for spiritual values. Aesthetics was an expression of man's need to be in love with his world. The cult of ugliness is a regression. It destroys our appetite, our love for our world.

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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

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