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Him Quotes by Anais Nin
- We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship…
- The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is…
- Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him,…
- Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend…
- Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it,…
- Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves…
- To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
- Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash…
- Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives…
- A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could…
- I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together.…
- The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force…
- When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had…
- I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations,…
- When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and…
- She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn…
- If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one…
- He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.
- With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden