Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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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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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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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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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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