How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINIf 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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