How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Anxiety 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.
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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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