Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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 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 love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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