How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINThrow your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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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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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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