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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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 possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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