Love
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
A Farewell to Arms
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Men Without Women
To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her, which is the most terrible bond of all.
Sexus
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth�I count that something of a miracle.
Tropic of Cancer
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
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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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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