I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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 travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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