We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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