Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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