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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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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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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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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