We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINHow wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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