More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
