Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINI, 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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