It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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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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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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