Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 In Nin's Continuous Novel Quotes
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.
When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive
Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one...
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?
Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea.
Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.
But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...
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.
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.