Write. Write until it stops hurting.
ANAIS NINMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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