How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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