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 NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Throw 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.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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