Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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