Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINThe only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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 fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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