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.
ANAIS NINIt is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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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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