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.
ANAIS NINThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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