How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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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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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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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