The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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