How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINYou fall in love with people’s minds.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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