How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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