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.
ANAIS NINI’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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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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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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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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