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 NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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There 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.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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