Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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 fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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