Anais Nin on loneliness
Anais Nin100 quotes“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.”
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
Anais NinAnais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinAnais Nin Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais NinAnais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais NinAnais Nin I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais NinAnais Nin I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Anais NinAnais Nin Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais NinAnais Nin I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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 NinAnais Nin Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anais NinAnais Nin You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais NinAnais Nin I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Victor HugoVictor Hugo Just because someone is single doesn’t mean they’re lonely. Some people are in relationships and they’ve forgotten what happiness is.
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