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 NINI, 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 NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINCreate a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
ANAIS NINYou live out the confusions until they become clear.
ANAIS NINI don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
ANAIS NINAnxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINHow wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINIt is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
ANAIS NINLove 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.
ANAIS NINWhat 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.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
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