I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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