Quotes By Letter: N

“I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.”

-Florence Nightingale

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“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, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

-Anaïs Nin

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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds.”

-Anaïs Nin

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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book... or you take a trip... and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might generate into death): absence of pleasure.

That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children.

And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.

Some never awaken.”

-Book Of Mirrors, Anaïs Nin

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“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her.”

-Henry and June, Anaïs Nin

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“I might be down in the dumps a hundred times, but each time I would clamber out again to good coffee on a lacquered tray beside an open fire. Each time I would clamber out to silk stockings and perfume. Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”

-Henry and June, Anaïs Nin

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“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.”

-Henry and June, Anaïs Nin

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“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.”

-The Diaries of Anaïs Nin, Anaïs Nin

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“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

-The Diaries of Anaïs Nin, Anaïs Nin

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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”

-The Diaries of Anaïs Nin, Anaïs Nin

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“All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.”

-Under The Glass Bell, Anaïs Nin

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“Smashed up my sanity
Smashed up my integrity
Smashed up what I believed in
Smashed up what's left of me
Smashed up my everything
Smashed up all that was true
Gonna smash myself to pieces
I don't know what else to do.”

-Broken, Nine Inch Nails

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“Do you know how far this has gone?
Just how damaged have I become?
When I think I can overcome
It runs even deeper

In in a dream I'm a different me
With a perfect you
We fit perfectly
And for once in my life I feel complete-
And I still want to ruin it.”

-Even Deeper, Nine Inch Nails

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“I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything.”

-Hurt, Nine Inch Nails

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“as black as the night can get
everything is safer now
there's always a way to forget
once you learn to find a way how
in the blur of serenity
where did everything get lost?
the flowers of naivete
buried in a layer of frost
the smell of sunshine
i remember sometimes.”

-I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally, Nine Inch Nails

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“i still recall the taste of your tears
echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears
my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
scraping through my head 'till i don't want to sleep anymore.”

-Something That I Can Never Have, Nine Inch Nails

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“Broken bruised forgotten sore
Too fucked up to care anymore.”

-Somewhat Damaged, Nine Inch Nails

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“The sun is gone
But I have a light.”

-Dumb, Nirvana

Recommended by Lauren.

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“Hey, wait, I've got a new complaint
forever in debt to your priceless advice.”

-Heart Shaped Box, Nirvana

Recommended by ariasna.

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“Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet.
Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath.”

-Heart Shaped Box, Nirvana

Recommended by ariasna.

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“I'm so happy
'Cause today I found my friends
They're in my head.”

-Lithium, Nirvana

Recommended by Eleri.

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“Give me
A Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I
Can sigh eternally.”

-Pennyroyal Tea, Nirvana

Recommended by Daniel Hunt.

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“Nothing really bothers her
She just wants to love herself.”

-You Know You're Right, Nirvana

Recommended by ariasna.

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“I can't do the little things
I hold so dear
'Cause it's all those little things
That I fear.”

-Just A Girl, No Doubt

Recommended by Jaine.

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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

-Henri Nouwen

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