Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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 hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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