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.
ANAIS NINThere 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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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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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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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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