Your eyes make me shy.
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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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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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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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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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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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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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