How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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