Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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