How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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