Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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 possess light within, you see it externally.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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 are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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