I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
ANAIS NINFor 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.
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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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