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 NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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.
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