778 Quotes by Anais Nin

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

(…) to press me hotly, and we dance, sexes soldered, hot, burning, saying: Open your legs, God, I want you like hell, I could take you right here. Whore, whore, whore at last.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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.