I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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