No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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