We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINI, 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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