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.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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