In chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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, 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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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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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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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