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Words Quotes by Anais Nin
- The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,…
- The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
- Solitude may rust your words.
- Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath…
- 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…
- Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing…
- And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized,…
- I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over…
- ..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures.…
- But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my…
- Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say…
- 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…
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- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila