I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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