How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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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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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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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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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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