The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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 love your silences, they are like mine.
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