Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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