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“I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

“I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy
of miracles.”
― Anaïs Nin, House of Incest

“You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

“I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I’m disillusioned and don’t want to struggle to make things clear.”
― Anaïs Nin

“I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.”
― Anaïs Nin

“When life becomes too difficult, I turn to my work. I swim into a new region.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.”
― Anaïs Nin, House of Incest

“Tonight I am all in flames.”
― Anaïs Nin

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
― D.H. Lawrence

“She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“Life is ours to be spent, not to
be saved.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
― D. H. Lawrence

“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. ”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Be a good animal,true to your instincts.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The White Peacock

“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

“Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

“The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.”
― D. H. Lawrence

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.”
― D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“I know no greater delight than the sheer delight of being alone.”
― D. H. Lawrence