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.
ANAIS NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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