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.
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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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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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