How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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