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 NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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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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