We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINHow wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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