Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Reality 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.
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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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 a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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