How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINReality 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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