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 NINCreate a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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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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