Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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 was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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For 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.
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