How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINYou don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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