What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
ANAIS NINThe role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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