How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINI take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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