The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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