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.
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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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