The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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