Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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 write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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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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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 don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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