We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINIn chaos, there is fertility.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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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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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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