When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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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