Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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