I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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