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.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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