How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINEach contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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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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