It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINShe lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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