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.
ANAIS NINThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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 travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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