We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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.
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